[PlanetCCRMA] 2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrmasmp kernel not installing

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Thu Nov 11 22:49:01 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 22:24, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:21:13 -0500, Matt Barber wrote
> > ->since i have your ears.  let me make sure my methodology is correct
> > here.  I
> > should be downloading all the FC2 CDs from the planet CCRMA site unless
> > only
> > the FC1 ROMs are available, no?
> > 
> > For example the Planet CCRMA Core and Planet CCRMA iso's are only built
> > for
> > FC1 - these are the CDs I want to build, no?
> > <-
> > 
> > Hi Noah,
> > 
> > I don't think there are FC2 install disks on the ccrma website (I don't
> > know where to find them if there are).  You can get them from one of
> > these mirrors:
> > 
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> > 
> > You will want FC2, and probably not FC3 (geez, how fast are they 
> > going to throw out new releases?).  Be aware that if you're using 
> > Opterons, you will still want to get i386 roms and not the x86_64 -
> >  there is no 64-bit support in ccrma (yet - pipeline?).
> > 
> > Read these instructions:
> > 
> >
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/changelog.html#latestplanetcoretwo
> > 
> > And these:
> > 
> > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2004-August/005789.html
> > 
> > You want to read this, too, and if you have time, go through some of 
> > the posts from august through september, when it seemed like the 
> > most kernel work was being done:
> > 
> > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2004-August/005879.html
> > 
> > In general, I think you should try a number of kernels in planetedge...
> > I haven't been there in a while, so I don't know what the most 
> > current thing is.  We're using 2.6.7 still, because all the most 
> > recent ones crash our box when we try to burn cds.  I also had 
> > trouble with the SATA controller (silicon image) under one of the 
> > 2.6.8.1 kernels, in which case I had to trick the ramdisk (ask me if 
> > you have that problem).
>
> okay very nice.  looks like I am up and running with the FC2 CCRMA kernel 2.6.7.
> 
> I am still a little unclear here.  I am at the 'apt-get dist-update' stage.  I
> am wondering how I can update my distribution with the CCRMA binaries - do I
> need to apt-get index my FC2 install CDs?  how do I proceed here?
> 
> I also added the FC1 to the apt-cdrom program - I cant figure out how to
> remove this information.  I am thinking adding them was not the best idea. 
> What should I do about this?

The information about those disks was incorporated by apt-cdrom into
/etc/apt/sources.list, you can just comment those lines out (prepend a
"#" to each line that deals with a cdrom). 

You are connected to the Internet, right? You can install the kernel if
you have not done so directly from the repository, same for the apt-get
dist-upgrade. 

-- Fernando